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Northern accents

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Major accents of United Kingdom (Northern, Southern, Scottish)

Educated Southern speech is very much near-RP accent whereas non-standard accents are very much near Cockney. Therefore we shall focus our attention on the rather detailed description of uneducated London accent — Cockney.

Cockney accent. It has been long established that Cockney is a social accent — the speech of working-class areas of the Great­er London. Here are some pronunciation peculiaritie s of it.

In vowels

1. [ʌ] is realized as [æi]: blood [bLvd] — [blæid];

2.[æ] is realized as [ɛ] or [ɛı]: bag [bæg] — [bɛg], [bɛig];

3. [i] in word-final position sounds as [i:]: city ['siti] — ['siti:];

4. when [ɔ:] is non-final, its realization is much closer, it sounds like [o:]: pause [pɔ:z] — [po:z]; when it is final, it is pro­nounced as [ɔ:ə]: paw [pɔ:] — [pɔ:ə];

5. the diphthong [ei] is realized as [æi] or [ai]: lady ['leidi] — ['læidi:], ['laidi:];

6. RP [ɜu] sounds as [æu]: soaked [sɜukt] — [sæukt];

7. RP [au] may be [æə]: now [nau] — [næə].

In consonants

1. [h] in unstressed position is almost invariably absent;

2. [ʔ] is widely spread in Cockney speech: paper ['pæiʔpə], butterfly ['bʌʔtəflai];

3. The contrast between [Ɵ] and [f] is completely lost: thin [fin], booth [bu:f];

4. The contrast between [ð] and [v] is occasionally lost: weather ['wevə];

5. when [ð] occurs initially it is either dropped or replaced by [d]: this [ðis], them [(d)əm];

6. [l] is realized as a vowel when it precedes a consonant and follows a vowel, or when it is syllabic: milk [mivk], t ab le [teibv]; when the preceding vowel is [ɔ:], [l] may disappear completely;

7. [ŋ] is replaced by [n] in word-final position: dancing ['da:nsin] or it may be pronounced as [iŋk] in something, any­thing, nothing: ['nʌfiŋk];

8. [p, t, k] are heavily aspirated, more so than in RP;

9. [t] is affricated, [s] is heard before the vowel: top [tsɒp].

Northern accents

The countie s of northern England are not far from the Scot­tish border, so the influence of Scotch accent is noticeable, though there are of course many feature s of pronunciation char­acteri s tic only of northern Engli s h regions. The most typical rep­resentative of the speech of this area is Newcastle accent. It dif­fers from RP in the following:

in vowels

1. RP [ʌ] is realized as [u]: love [lʌv] — [luv];

2. RP final [ı] sounds like [i:]: city ['sıtı] — ['siti:];

3. words like dance, chance which in RP have [a:] are pro­nounced with [æ]: [dæns], [ʧæns];

4. [ei], [ɜu]are either monophthongs, or much narrower diph­thongs than the ones in the south of England, or they may even sound as opening diphthongs [ıe], [uo]: bay [be:], [bie], plate [ple:t], [plıet], boat [bo:t], [buot];

5. words that have "al" in spelling — talk, c all, all, are pro­nounced with [a:]:[ta:k], [ka:l], [a:l];

6. RP words with [ɜ:] are pronounced with [ɔ:] in a broad Ty-neside accent: first [fɔ:st], shirt [ʃɔ:t]; so first, forced; shirt, short are homonyms;

7. [ai] is [ɛi]: right [rɛit];

8. words which in RP have [au] may have [u:], e.g. about ['əbu:t].

ln consonants

1. [1] is clear in all environments;

2. [h] is usually present in all positions;

3. -ing is [ın]: shilling ['ʃılın];

4. [p, t, k] between vowels are accompanied by glottal stop [ʔ]: pit y ['pıtʔi:];

5. in parts of Northumberland and Durham [r] may be uvular (in its production the tongue and the uvular, not the tongue and the alveolar ridge take part).


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